Chelsea Schehr, 24, was placed on suicide watch at the Waller County Jail on Saturday, April 22, 2017. Her family says the decision was made without professional diagnosis and the denial of clothing and feminine hygiene products was degrading.

Chelsea Schehr, 24, was placed on suicide watch at the Waller County Jail on Saturday, April 22, 2017. Her family says the decision was made without professional diagnosis and the denial of clothing and

This is the standard-issue blanket provided to Waller County Jail inmates who are placed on suicide watch. Officials say it is big enough for inmates to cover themselves since those on suicide watch are not issued clothing.

This is the standard-issue blanket provided to Waller County Jail inmates who are placed on suicide watch. Officials say it is big enough for inmates to cover themselves since those on suicide watch are not

The mother of a young woman who spent more than 24 hours nearly naked at the Waller County Jail said the decision to place her daughter on suicide watch was made without professional confirmation and turned the weekend arrest into a humiliating ordeal.

Colleen Schehr said her 24-year-old daughter, Chelsea Schehr, was arrested Saturday over a "domestic dispute" with the father of her child and was taken to the Waller County Jail in Hempstead.

The young woman's clothes were taken away, and she was given a blanket with which to cover herself. Since Chelsea Schehr was on her menstrual cycle, the blanket also functioned as a sanitary napkin and a towel, her mother said.

Colleen Schehr said she was speaking on behalf of her daughter because the young woman was traumatized by what happened to her.

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Calls to the Waller County Jail on Wednesday were not returned.

Waller County Judge Trey Duhon said although he was not directly involved with this case, he learned that when Chelsea Schehr was booked into the jail, staff determined she should be placed on suicide watch.

"When this woman was brought in and went through the process of being booked into jail, based on her responses, she was identified as a potential suicide risk," Duhon said. "So she was placed in a suicide-watch jail cell."

Colleen Schehr questioned who decided that her daughter was potentially suicidal.

"She should have been assessed by a doctor, a licensed professional, but there was nothing," she said. "They're false allegations."

According to the Texas Commission on Jail Standards, the judge said, inmates who are identified as a suicide risk do not receive clothes since the items can be used for self-harm.

"She was given a standard-issue, heavy-duty blanket, which cannot be torn or ripped," he said. "I am very familiar with the blankets. They are more than sufficient to cover an inmate's body and protect modesty."

The heavy blanket, however, became soiled and wet as Chelsea Schehr repeatedly cleaned blood off herself from her heavy menstrual flow. A guard took that blanket and replaced it with one that was smaller and barely covered her private parts, she told her mother.

Colleen Schehr said when her daughter was arraigned, she was the only person in the courtroom "wearing" a blanket.

"She was trying to hold her blanket close to her body to fill out paper work, while she was bleeding on herself," Colleen Schehr said.

Duhon said that while inmates on suicide watch have the option of choosing a blanking or a smock, most opt for the blanket. Colleen Schehr, however, said her daughter was not offered a smock or any sort of garment.

"She kept asking at least for underpants," Schehr said.

The young woman also begged for toilet paper, sanitary napkins or tampons and asked to see a doctor but none of her requests was fulfilled, her mother said.

Chelsea Schehr also told her mother that, in her cell, she had to contend with blood "all over the floor" from a previous inmate and urine in the sink.

Duhon said as far as he knew, the jail staff acted in "strict accordance" with jail commission standards.

"She has not filed a complaint with the Texas Jail Commission," the judge said. "If she does, an investigation will be conducted."

Colleen Schehr said Thursday the family planned to file a complaint.

The Waller County Jail has been in the public eye in recent months as the site where Sandra Bland took her own life in July 2015 after a questionable arrest by a state trooper on a rural roadway. (Story continues below.)

That case ended in a $1.9 million mediated settlement between Bland's family and Waller County.

In March, a female inmate filed a complaint with the jail commission, accusing a male inmate of sexually assaulting her. The male inmate was performing duties typically assigned to inmates with trusty status, but this male inmate had not been given that status, officials said at the time.